Subject: Re: Initiating an Xserver Shutdown (NetBSD 1.6.1)
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/24/2004 05:08:39
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:47:18PM +1100, matthew green wrote:

> netbsd xsrc has _always_ been based on code from the XFree86 team.
> netbsd/sparc has always used the "Xsun" family of servers.  as i
> understand, the "XFree86" X server code has modules for all the
> sun graphics cards that includes better acceleration for many of
> them than the old "Xsun" family does.  this implies that if we can
> make XFree86 work with these, we'll have a faster result... so it
> may be desirable to do this.

It looks as if the cgsix driver in XFree86 still does not use any 
accelleration, unlike Xsun.  I think the only accellerated sun
framebuffer in XFree86 is ffb.

Eduardo